I watched last night’s GOP Debate, and was surprised that I actually learned something about the candidates. I expected it to be just the typical neocon foreign policy chest-thumping (“They hate us for our freedom and I’ll bomb...

The Donald must be slipping in the polls, because he opened his big mouth again. His campaign called for a “total and complete shutdown of all Muslims entering the United States.” Reactions to his statement have been predictable...

After the Paris attacks, some government officials are demanding backdoors inserted into the encryption programs found on mobile phones and common apps. Basically, their argument goes like this: Bad guys need to communicate to do bad things. If...

I haven’t been able to keep up with the presidential race as much as I wanted to in the past few weeks. I completely missed the CNBC debate debacle (although I saw the clip of Cruz’s awesome takedown of the media), and I only caught...

Interesting article in Forbes recently regarding encryption, the NSA, and Apple: Apple CEO Tim Cook says no to NSA accessing user data A few points to consider: If Apple did have a backdoor, who would know? Although the title of the article makes...

The big social media news today is that Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, is on Twitter: Can you hear me now? — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 29, 2015 Humorously, Snowden so far is only following one Twitter account: the NSA’s. Of...

The resignation of John Boehner last week came as a shock to most people, including me. I was reminded of the first (and only) time I met the Speaker: I attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, which is located within Mr. Boehner’s...

Last night CNN hosted the 3-hour, 11-candidate 2nd GOP Debate (as well as the 1-hour, 4-candidate undercard), and if you love politicians being wonkish, puffing out their chests to show how “strong” they are, and saying that they...

Speaking of third-parties, John McAfee is running for president under his newly formed “Cyber Party.” McAfee is the founder of his namesake company that produces antivirus software (he hasn’t been with them in years, however)...

Recently, Donald Trump signed the “GOP loyalty pledge,” agreeing to support whatever candidate is the Republican nominee for President and promising not to run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t get the GOP nod. There was...